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During George Washington’s first term, an epidemic killed one-tent of  Philadelphians, which was the capital of the young United States.

Only hours after being sworn in, Lincoln faced the most momentous decision in presidential history.

Histories written about the nation's greatest crisis focus on Lincoln and the military campaigns. But an intriguing group of characters in Congress also played a major role, advising and prodding the president.

The nation was torn apart by disastrous riots in a hundred cities and towns, with lasting results.

Toward the end of World War I, American doctors fought an invisible enemy on the home front — a pandemic that would kill more people than any other outbreak of disease in human history.

In 1942, over a quarter of a million ordinary citizens volunteered to help defend our country as Nazi submarines terrorized the East Coast and Caribbean waters, sinking fuel tankers and cargo ships with near impunity.

Shortly after the author became Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1987, the stock market plummeted 22 percent in one day.